Cheap Postage
Cheap Postage
作者：Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873
体例：题 章数：36
字数：186,285 来源：Project Gutenberg
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章节目录
共 36 题- CHEAP POSTAGE
- REMARKS AND STATISTICS
- ON THE SUBJECT OF
- CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM
- IN
- GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
- BY JOSHUA LEAVITT,
- COR. SEC. OF THE CHEAP POSTAGE ASSOCIATION.
- Boston
- CONTENTS
- PUBLISHING DIRECTION.
- CHEAP POSTAGE.
- MR. HUME’S TABLE.
- I. _Reduction of Price tends to increase of Consumption._
- II. _Nothing but Cheap Postage will suppress Private Mails._
- III. _The Postage Law of 1845._
- 1. For the franking of seven millions of free letters.
- V. _Franking._
- VI. _Letter Postage Stamps, for Prepayment._
- The total number of Label Stamps issued in the year ending
- VII. _New Arrangement of Newspaper Postage._
- VIII. _Pamphlet and Magazine Postage_.
- IX. _Ocean Penny Postage._
- X. _The Free Delivery of Letters and Papers in Large Towns_.
- XI. _The Expense of Cheap Postage, and how it is to be paid._
- APPENDIX.
- I. TABLES FROM THE PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS.
- NEWSPAPERS.
- FOOTNOTES
- 2 “This is exclusive of about six and a half millions of franks.”
- 7 This year includes one month of the Fourpenny Rate.
- 9 Estimated from an enumeration for four several weeks in that year.
- 10 The Penny Rate commenced Jan. 10, 1840; Stamps, May 6, 1840.
- 12 Cost diminished by £364, equal to _d_. 0.004 per letter.
- 13 Cost increased equal to _d_. 0.445 per letter.
- 14 Cost increased equal to _d_. 0.205 per letter.